by Helen Hardt
Part of Steel Brothers Saga by Helen Hardt, book 10
First published 2019
Marjorie Steel has delayed her culinary school plans to help her pregnant best friend and care for two newly adopted boys. She welcomes the distraction, especially since it means spending time with Bryce Simpson, the ranch hand who has caught her attention. Bryce throws himself into backbreaking labor at the Steel Ranch, hoping physical exhaustion will silence the guilt over his deceased father's terrible secrets. When the Steel family offers him an executive role with profit sharing, Bryce accepts for the sake of his young son and widowed mother. The position brings him closer to Marjorie, whose intelligence and passion ignite something he thought was dead inside him. Yet Bryce believes himself too damaged to deserve her love. As he struggles between desire and self-doubt, the crimes his father committed threaten to surface once again, forcing Bryce to confront whether the past will destroy his chance at happiness with Marjorie.
Genres: romance, suspense, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Steel Ranch
301 pages · Paperback · Waterhouse Press LLC
Content warnings: mental-illness